So. So. So.
Nendoroid pic courtesy of Danny Choo. When’s the preorder going up?
Last One Out, Turn Out The Lights
In this trying baseball season for our beloved Baltimore Orioles, the fans who stick around deserve better. Tuesday night, Jason Berken t-shirt night, the Orioles had a decent game. They never said die even though they relinquished an early three run lead to be down four then five runs. It took them to extra innings, but they win one. Like the proverbial stuck clock, they’ll win one every now and then.
We had left the game early in the eleventh inning. But the fans that stayed, they were the real winners.
Quote of the Day [7.19.10]
"How's it going, royal ugly dudes?"Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter), Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure
Things to think about while watching Inception
I really wanted to say this in my Inception review, but forgot before I hit the post button.
This movie will remind you that Nolan’s best film was the playfully, inventive Memento.
I got a vibe of Jacob’s Ladder — where and when is all this happening.
I also got a vibe of Flatliners — they come back.
Nolan likes to work with Cillian Murphy.
He also loves Michael Caine, but then again who doesn’t?
Seeing Ellen Page made me wonder about my car being ticketed.
I thought Ellen Page was gonna be the new Neo.
Why couldn’t Ellen Page have constructed awesome things on the fly?
How come Ellen Page was dramatically underused? Or was she overvalued?
Was that The Pin?
“I am a cypher, a cypher wrapped in an enigma… smothered in secret sauce.”
The movie caps a funny week of weird, strange dreams — earthquake!
Inception
I am preternaturally disposed to not liking Christopher Nolan movies. I don’t know why but a lot his work rubs me the wrong way. I feel that he’s too showy: a wink and a nod to how neat all this film working, the writing, the directing, the acting, is great — acknowledge it. So I approached watching his latest “greatness,” Inception, with trepidation.
Right from the start he didn’t disappoint. There were scenes with lots of talking, exposition, saying rather than doing. It was all too verbose for me. I wanted some action. If I don’t get some action, I’m going to get up and go.
Then the heist began, the trippy shit started happening, and Inception became a much better movie. I realized all that early speechifying helped explain how the heist would work, but all that speechifying just made for a boring movie. It’s as if Hitchcock explained his McGuffins.
I really liked the latter half of the movie. As the heist unfolded, I sat right up in my seat and enjoyed the convoluted structure to the action. It was very inventive and a neat fantasy.
I think I could see this again. Something I thought I wouldn’t say for a Christopher Nolan film.
4 of 5 stars
Earthquake!!
Reports said that there was an earthquake in Maryland this morning about 5 AM.Yup.It woke me up from one of my quirky dreams. I was lying asleep on my stomach. I felt some shaking. I thought it was a heart attack, but then I realized that it must be an earthquake. I felt the trembling on my chest and barely heard the shaking in the house. At that early time in the morning, I thought that I was hallucinating and that it was just a dream. It was real. So that's what earthshaking means.
Paper Planes Covered
Was listening to the several of the covers on AV Club Undercover, and found some enjoyment with this cover of M.I.A’s “Paper Planes.” I liked the Telecaster and I liked the violins. I liked the fact that it’s a cover a tune that makes use of a loop from an 8-bit version of the Clash’s “Straight To Hell.” That’s music in this day and age.
Link of the Day [7.14.10]
Links of the Day usually take you to interesting sites that I hope you find interesting. Or they take you to sites that I hope provoke some thought. Today’s site does neither. I just think it’s the best named site EVAH! If you have a robot, it has to be topless. Beats those other droids.
Azu-nyan Nendoroid
Azu-nyan Nendoroid
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.
This is so, so kawaii!!
Re: Alyssa_Milano | Old Spice
If you’re on Twitter, then you must have noticed that Old Spice is a trending topic. The heck? Why do so many people care about that?
Because, if you tweet at @OldSpice, you may find a video on YouTube with our man, the Old Spice guy, flirting right back at you! O, @Alyssa_Milano, why do you find this guy flirty, but me creepy when I DM you?